Agenda

The Big Data conference is organized around specific, practical examples, best practices, and state-of-the-art applications that demonstrate the business value of analytics. The format is small  – limited to 125 individuals, interactive, and focused on business value. The conference committee has designed the agenda to carefully mix best practices and business value examples featuring practitioners at well-known firms as well as selected innovative solutions from key providers.

Schedule

8:30am Breakfast and registration
8:55am M. Moshe Porat, Dean, Fox School of Business, Temple University
9:00am George Llado, Vice President, Merck & Co., Inc.
9:15am Keynote speaker: Adrian Gardner, Director of IT & Communications Directorate, CIO, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
9:45am Session: The Intelligent Enterprise
Chair: Munir Mandviwalla, Associate Professor, Chair, and Executive Director, Temple University

  • William Stolte, Executive Director, Shared Business Services, Data Excellence & Analytics, Merck (Analytics as a Shared Service)
  • Thomas Hughes, Director, Enterprise Business Intelligence, Campbell Soup Company (Leveraging Enterprise Information and Analytics to Maximize Growth Opportunities)
  • Arnab Gupta, CEO & Founder, Opera Solutions (The New Dynamics of Big Data)
11:00am Break
11:15am Session: Redefining Healthcare
Chair: David Schuff, Associate Professor and Director, Temple University

  • Josh Raysman, Senior Director, Data Management & Analytics, Pfizer (Leveraging Big Data for a Healthier World)
  • Sarah Aerni, Senior Data Scientist, Greenplum (Big Data Analytics at Work in Healthcare)
  • Ravi Chawla, Director, Informatics, Independence Blue Cross (From Attaining to Sustaining Membership – Using Big Data and Predictive Analytics in Marketing)
12:30pm Lunch
01:15pm Keynote speaker: Suja Chandrasekaran, Vice President, Enterprise Information Management, Walmart Stores, Inc.
1:45pm Break
2:00pm Session: Customer Intelligence
Chair: Arka Mukherjee, CEO, Global IDs

  • Brian F. McCaffrey, Director, SAP and Business Process, Wawa (Driving Business Performance Through Analytics)
  • Clark Frogley, Executive VP & COO, Chartis Global Investigative Services (Insurance Fraud Analytics – The Data You Cannot Afford To Ignore)
  • Ryan Caplan, CEO, Coldlight Solutions (Know Thy Customer: Next-Generation Techniques for Turning Big Customer Data Into Action)
3:15pm Break
3:30pm Session: Gaining New Business Insights
Chair: Jonathan Brassington, CEO, LiquidHub Inc.

  • Caron Kogan, Strategic Planning Director, Lockheed Martin (The Process of Predicting with Big Data)
  • Mark Headd, Chief Data Officer, City of Philadelphia (Bright Lights, Big City Data)
  • David Schuff, Associate Professor & Director, Temple University (Understanding the Campaign Media Ecosystem: Social Media’s Influence on Political Campaigns)
4:45pm Plenary Session
Chair: Paul Pavlou, Professor and Stauffer Senior Research Fellow, Temple University

  • Amit Sinha, Head, Database & Technology Innovation, SAP (Re-inventing Business Processes with Real-time Insights)
  • James Golden, Lead Partner, Accenture (Hacking Healthcare – Improving Healthcare Through Big Data)
  • Paul Pavlou, Professor and Stauffer Senior Research Fellow, Temple University (Big Data Do’s and Don’ts)
5:45pm Closing Remarks: Kenneth Blank, Senior Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Education, Temple University
5:50pm Reception

 

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